Chelan, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,730 ft 830 m2,280 ft 695 m2,060 ft 630 m1,620 ft 495 m1,170 ft 360 m950 ft 290 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chelan sits at about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,130–1,740 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,730 ft 830 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,430 ft 435 m
all land inside city limits
Chelan spans about 1,780 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chelan | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (S10) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,263 ft385 m |
| Average of all land | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Nearest peak Chelan Butte, 0.8 mi south of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,839 ft1,170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Chelan County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 4,462 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 652 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.8410° N, 120.0165° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Lake Chelan (S10) 1,263 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98816
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waterville2,630 ft
- Mansfield2,260 ft
- Chelan1,210 ft
- Manson1,200 ft
- Methow1,130 ft
- Sunnyslope970 ft
- Bridgeport850 ft
- Chelan Falls830 ft
- Pateros820 ft
- Brewster810 ft
- Entiat800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington137th highest of 639
- Towns in Chelan Countyhighest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stormy Mountain7,180 ft
- Badger Mountain4,240 ft
- Chelan Butte3,839 ft
- Bear Mountain, Chelan County3,600 ft
- Arbuckle Mountain3,050 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.